At 11:45 AM 9/26/00 -0700, James Scott Boorn wrote:
>I suspect I am not linking properly. The symptom is that malloc/free
>does not seem to behave in a thread safe manner. In a XS module the
>code uses the pthread library to create a couple of threads, in the
>threads lots of mallocs and frees are performed. The code will fail
>from Segmentation fault.
There are lots of things besides malloc that'll make perl segfault and die
when threaded. :)
You may want to make sure that you've got the latest pthread library for
linux, since every new release of it fixes more bugs.
Dan
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